Eca De Queiros

Bem-vindo ao maravilhoso mundo de E a de Queir s. Nesta edi o cl ssica do seu romance A Cidade e as Serras, trazemos at si a melhor edi o esta admir vel pe a liter ria do final do s culo XIX e in cio do s culo XX. Publicado em 1901, no ano seguinte ao da sua morte, no romance A Cidade e as Serras E a de Queir s afasta-se do realismo e abandona a cr tica pesada que fazia sociedade portuguesa da poca. O pr prio t tulo j indica sobre o enredo. Nesse livro, E a de Queir s faz uma compara o entre a vida m dica e agitada de Paris e a vida tranquila e pacata na cidade serrana de Tormes, no Baixo Douro, Portugal. A Cidade e as Serras, uma obra das mais significativas de E a de Queir s. Nela o escritor relata a travessia de Jacinto de Tormes, um ferrenho adepto do progresso e da civiliza o - da cidade para as serras. Ele troca o mundo civilizado, repleto de comodidades provenientes do progresso tecnol gico, pelo mundo natural, selvagem, primitivo e pouco confort vel, no sentido dos bens que caracterizam a vida urbana moderna, mas onde encontra a felicidade, mudando radicalmente de opini o. Esperamos que tenha tanto prazer a ler esta obra cl ssica quanto aquele que n s, Mogul Classics, tivemos a trazer-lha at si.

Jos Maria de E a de Queir s (P voa de Varzim, 25 de novembro de 1845 - Paris, 16 de agosto de 1900) um dos mais importantes escritores lusos. Foi autor, entre outros romances de reconhecida import ncia, de Os Maias e O crime do Padre Amaro; este ltimo considerado por muitos o melhor romance realista portugu s do s culo XIX. Obras: O Mandarim O crime do Padre Amaro O Mysterio da Estrada de Cintra Contos

Un empleado bibli filo del Ministerio de la Gobernaci n adquiere un libro encantado que le invita a aseisinar al mandar n Ti-Chin-F tocando una campanilla. El empleado hereda entonces la inmensa riqueza del mandar n y se lanza a una vida de fama, lujo y placer; pero la maldici n de Ti-Chin-F le persigue y le llena de remordimientos. El empleado decide entonces marchar a China para resarcir a la familia del dignatario muerto. All comprobar la imposibilidad de librarse de la maldici n.

The explosive and highly controversial 2002 film of The Crime of Father Amaro (El crimen del Padre Amaro) is set in Mexico, in a material and religious culture of this century not unlike the provincial Portugal where, as a young man, Eça de Queiros was despatched to train for the consular service. The Crime of Father Amaro is set in Leiria, a provincial cathedral city, in which the hypocrisies of churchmen were not far to seek. Father Amaro, a young man like Eça himself, with a priestly rather than a diplomatic vocation, falls into a relationship with a woman, and their tragic story unfolds with a harsh relentlessness. The situation of women, tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their illusions of romance, much troubled the young author in this and later books.

Carlos, heir to a notable fin-de-siècle Lisbon family, aspires to serve his fellow men as a doctor, in the arts and politics. But Lisbon society is so subject to international pressures that he cannot succeed and declines into amiable dilletantism. Hailed as a masterpiece in the Paris of Flaubert, Balzac and Zola, this remains Eça's most popular novel.

La sensibilit dite d cadente fut n'en pas douter l'un des courants originaux qui inspir rent profond ment la litt rature de la fin du XIXe si cle. Aussi est-ce avec beaucoup de modestie que j'ai le plaisir de vous pr senter cet ensemble de textes. Ils n'ont pas d'autre ambition que de tenter de marier les effluves de la F e Verte aux derni res plaintes d'un Mill naire moribond. Si le genre " fantastique " pr domine largement dans cette anthologie, il est loin d' tre exclusif et sait s'estomper au fil des pages pour laisser place des r cits sot riques, rotiques, voire intimistes. Dois-je galement avouer que ce travail est le fruit d'une passion, celle qui cherche unir la vie la mort, int grer l'horreur la beaut , m langer enfin les plus douces fragrances aux parfums poivr s de la d ch ance ? Les auteurs r unis dans ce volume, Grands Anciens aujourd'hui disparus ou jeunes plumes prometteuses, nous offrent une bouriffante palette des mille et une couleurs de la d cadence. Une d cadence qui n'a pas d' ge, peut- tre parce qu'elle est la dimension obscure de l' me humaine. Philippe Marlin Sommaire: - L'absente - M moires d'une potence - Songe d'Isis - L' me en peine - La conception - Le Jeu du destin - L' preuve d'Ida Pendragon - La Voix de Monsieur Ambrose - Lucifer opiomane - Pr tresse de Babalon - Le Fr re de G latine - B r zina - Ma p'tite grosse - Pour quelques larmes de Mezkal - In Pauda Venenum - Ton jus savoureux

By the time Eça wrote The City and the Mountains he was consul in Paris. Jacinto, an absentee noble from Portugal, revels in joyous extreme in the latest of French sophistications. Circumstances compel his return to his family estates where he redsicovers the values and pleasures of Portuguese traditional life. However, the mature Eça never à thèse or without subtlety; the ironic narrator, Zé Fernandes, though finally repelled in Paris by an 'advanced' society driven by the 'breathless occupation of wanting', insinuates doubts about the perfeection Jacinto finds in a return to the pastoral. This delightful novel, thogh written at the fin-de-siècle, belongs to our time in its wry and telling interest in simpler life-styles.

In this brilliant, many-layered novel, Eca chooses an unlikely hero, a half-ruined aristocrat, generous, devious, who takes refuge from decline in writing about the courage of his forebears. This is the story of Ramires, and of the Portugal of Eca's time.

Returning from Brazil, Bazilio tells his cousin Louisa of the brave new world. His revelation leads to a devastating conclusion. 'O Primo Bazilio has a far deeper tragedy than Madame Bovary,' wrote Roy Campbell, 'because the girl involved is not a bitch... but a most loveable character... one of the most tragic novels of the nineteenth century.'